Literary Criticism

Paper Code: 
25DENG801
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to follow the historical development of literary criticism and its role in English studies, explore the work of selected literary critics and acquire skills for the textual application of such criticism.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Thestudents will:

CO60.Infer the meaning of primary critical texts with attention to historical and social contexts.

 

CO61. Deduce theliterary argument as presented by writers belonging to various schools of criticism

CO62.Examinekey concepts and, ideas to cultivate critical thinking

CO63.Explore ways for the textual applicationofvariousliterary theories to literary texts

CO64. Develop the ability to critically

understand the biographical, historical and/ or psychological implications of literary criticism
 

CO65.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

19.00
Unit I: 

Aristotle

Poetics (Chapters 1-5)

 

Phillip Sydney

An Apology for Poetry (Introduction, Proposition, Conclusion)

19.00
Unit II: 

William Wordsworth

Preface to the LyricaL Ballads

 

S.T.Coleridge

Biographia Literaria (Chapters IV, XIII and XIV)

16.00
Unit III: 

I.A. Richards

Principles of Literary Criticism(Chapters1, 2&34)

19.00
Unit IV: 

Virginia Woolf

Modern Fiction

T.S.Eliot

Tradition and the Individual Talent The Function of Criticism

17.00
Unit V: 

Cleanth Brooks

The Heresy of Paraphrase

The Language of Paradoxin

The Well-Wrought Urn:Studies in the Structure of Poetry

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

 

Aristotle. Poetics. Translated by Malcolm Heath, Penguin Classics, 1996.

Sidney, Philip. An Apology for Poetry. Edited by R.W. Maslen, Manchester University Press, 2002.

Wordsworth, William. Preface to Lyrical Ballads. In Lyrical Ballads, edited by R.L. Brett and A.R. Jones, Routledge, 2005.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria. Edited by James Engell and W. Jackson Bate, Princeton University Press, 1983.

Richards, I.A. Principles of Literary Criticism. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1924.

Woolf, Virginia. Modern Fiction. In The Common Reader, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1925.

Eliot, T.S. Tradition and the Individual Talent. In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, Methuen, 1920.

Eliot, T.S. The Function of Criticism. In Selected Essays, 1917-1932, Faber & Faber, 1932.

Brooks, Cleanth. The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1947.

 

E-Resources including links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fff0zkAg9FUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXnC1oQUx4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgTTH_Bd2-Ihttps://www.bl.uk/collection-items/tradition-and-individual-talent-by-t-s-eliothttps://cec.nic.in/webpath/podcast/audios/LITARARY_CRITICISM/m25.pdf

 

 

Reference Journal:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27703524 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brwk4

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026